Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261158AbUKBJ4x (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 04:56:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261404AbUKBJyT (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 04:54:19 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:7868 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261158AbUKBJvq (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 04:51:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:13:06 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Brent Casavant Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com, ak@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MPOL_INTERLEAVE for tmpfs files Message-ID: <20041102091306.GC21619@wotan.suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 622 Lines: 18 > And now, for your viewing pleasure... Patch is fine except that I would add a sysctl to enable/disable this. I can see that some people would like to not have interleave policy (e.g. when you use tmpfs as a large memory extender on 32bit NUMA then you probably want local affinity) Best if you name it /proc/sys/vm/numa-tmpfs-rr Default can be set to one for now. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/